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Dennis Wollersheim
I want use my leadership and systems engineering skills to facilitate public health.
Employment
Senior Public Health Officer
Melbourne
Department of Health
Present - 2020
- Developed systems (using R, SQL, Excel, Bash, Azure) that automated the tasks of three departed staff.
- Setup cross departmental collaboration with CVDL, HPB and aged care. Setup five linkage data teams channels to facilitate communication and automated data sharing.
- Setup a 14 member R User’s group, and promoted best practice R coding and version control across multiple teams - as a result, 15 people came to my most recent R training session
Public Health Researcher
Bundoora
La Trobe University
Present - 2001
- Collaborate with teams from Public Health, Health Information Management, Health Administration, Physiotherapy and Computer Science
- Worked with billion record health datasets, Australia wide mesh block level GIS data, Azure and local La Trobe computer clusters, Postgres and Mysql databases, Drupal content management system, Redcap surveys and machine learning
- Fifty four publications, 845 Citations, with an h-index of 15.
Health Information Management Lecturer
Bundoora
La Trobe University
2020 - 2002
- Designed and implemented courses in data modelling, systems analysis, Tableau, R, SQL, artificial intelligence, systems analysis, Perl. Sample course materials
- Course and subject design, thesis supervision, administrative process redesign
- Used massive health datasets for assignments to generate unique per-student tasks, facilitating collaboration and peer learning
Entrepreneur
Melbourne
Dot com startup
2001 - 1999
- Designed and implemented the first Melbourne web based real estate visit mapping tool, and car sales price comparison websites
Education
My combination of social and technical skills is unique and functional.
Phd (Computer Science)
Bundoora
La Trobe University
2005 - 2001
- Thesis topic: Dynamic Query Expansion for Information Retrieval of Imprecise Medical Queries
- Created a ‘Google for doctors’, using natural language processing and the 1.2 million term Unified Medical Language System to enhance medical information retrieval
BSc (Computer Science)
Lethbridge, AB, Canada
University of Lethbridge
1985 - 1981
- Created a graphics tablet based electronic ruler to facilitate data entry of 8 measurements of 300 poplar leaves
Personal Experience
Peer Counselling Teacher
Melbourne
N/A
Present - 1996
- Active member of a grass roots peer leadership training network
- Led 30 person multi day workshops, and weekly and monthly groups of multi-year duration.
Committee Secretary
Brunswick East
The Bicycle Recycle Shed
Present - 2015
- Improved the volunteer induction experience, leading to a 10x growth in new volunteer signups.
Board Secretary
Springvale
South East Community Links (SECL)
2011 - 2009
- I was co-opted to the board to advise on the transition to digital record keeping. SECL has a budget of over $4million / year.